Wil Lof - her Resume

Name: Wilhelmina Lof 
Born: May 22nd 1948, Hengelo -Ov-, the Netherlands
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Biography

Professional Career

1964 - 1981
- Designed motifes and color schemes for fabric printing to be used for mens and womens fashion.
Associated with several Dutch and German worldwide operating textile printing industries.

1981 - 1997
- Computergraphics: design and styling of several videotex and teletext services,
as well as other "on demand" services on behalf of broadcast television stations,
telecom operators and Cable TV-companies in the Netherlands and abroad.
Early designs of internet websites.

1999 -
- Full time painter. Member of the Association of Art Painters at Scherpenzeel
Member of the Etchers Group of the Art Guild in Leersum
Establishing ateliers in Leersum and Scherpenzaal, the Netherlands

2005 -
- Establishment of an atelier (2005) and liaison office (2006) in Rouzède, Charente/France
 

Education
- 1964 -1968  Training on the job in the design centres of Texoprint
- 1973  Attending several classes and seminars, specializing in Graphics and Textile Design
at the Enschede Academy for Art and Industry
- 1999: Attending Master Classes at Artibus (Utrecht) in large size, large scale painting
 

Editions

- 2003 Art Calender 2003 Marlou Kursten Kunstbemiddeling
- 2003  Two figurative and two abstract posters in the Sjatin Art Spring Collection
- Autumn 2003 Florines: Four individual figurative paintings in limited (100) edition as giclee on canvas and as mixed media canvas
 - Spring 2004 Louises: Two doptych figurative paintings in limited (50) edition as giclee on etching paper
 - Autumn 2004 Autumns: Four individual figurative paintings in limited (50) edition as giclee on etching paper
- Winter 2005 Mysteries: Two individual abstract figurative paintings in limited (75) edition as giclee on canvas as well as in limited edition (99) on etching paper
- Winter 2006 Sophias: A triptych of figurative paintings in limited (75) edition in two sizes on etching paper
- Winter 2007 Elettras Three figurative paintings  in limited (75) editions on canvas; as well asScarlets: three figurative paintings in two series - one larger sized limited (25) edition and one small size limited (50) edition

Exhibitions
2009
Lendfers Interior Decorator, Maastricht (the Netherlands)
Galerie Amaterasu, Wouwse Plantage (the Netherlands/Belgium)
2008
Koetshuis van de Casteelse Poort, Wageningen (the Netherlands)
Heart Galerie, Oisterwijk (the Netherlands)
2007
Galerie Thyade, Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
Galerie Beetje Kunst, Bilthoven (the Netherlands)
J&L Art, Amersfoort (the Netherlands)
2006
Attending Le BrouillArta, Biarritz (France)
Galerie Meander,  Zevenaar (the Nl), Galerie Derikx, Horst (the Nl), Galerie Sabo Art, Kempen (FRG)
2005
Solo at Carion Kuns(uitleen), Enschede; sSolo at J&L Art, Apeldoorn (both the Netherlands)
 Participation in an autumn exhibition at Galerie Amaterasu,  Wouwse Plantage (the Netherlands)
Solo at the Omma Centre of Contemporary Art, Chania (Crete, Griekenland)
Group Exhibiton at Kunstgalerie Catharina, Hillegom, the Netherlands)
Solo at the Koetshuis van de Casteelse Poort, musum Wageningen
Participation at the Fair of Contemporary Art te Sevilla (Sp.)
2004
Exhibitions in the Netherlands at Galerie Hofstee (Rotterdam-West), KunstEvent (Haarlem), Artchoices (Hilversum),
Omma Centre of Contemporary Art (Chania/Greece), Gallery Aenaon (Athens/Greece),
I Muestra Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Ciudad de San Sebastián (San Sebastian, Spain),
One Art Fair (Frankfurt aM/FRG), Latin American Art Museum (Miami/USA)
2003
Solo exhibitions in the Netherlands and on Crete/Greece
Group exhibition on Mallorca/Spain
Nominated and Selected for the 4th Biennale dell'Arte Contemporanea at Florence (It.)
2002
Solo exhibitions in numerous galleries in the Netherlands
Group exhibition on Crete/Greece
1999 - 2001
Group and solo exhibitions throughout the Netherlands in galleries and interior decorators
1998
Participated in several group exhibitions in the Leersum area
 1968
First exhibition of paintings and drawings
 

Characteristics of Wilhelmina Lof's Art Works

Wilhelmina Lof’s emphasizes on decorative, abstract-styled paintings with dynamic, powerfull colors, realized in mixed techniques. Applying a special bonding technique, she covers the canvas with carefully selected rag paper, which – while drying – tends to wrinkle. The resulted pattern is observed, and if possible used to accentuate the motive to be painted.
For the main stream of her werk she uses top-brand acrylics, with a favour for strong and intense pigments. Wilhelmina applies the paint in very thin layers, using her hands, brushes, sponges and palette knifes.

The result is a dynamic painting of which the color balance changes under the available light, warm in the morning light; bright under full sun shine, warm and tender at sunset. Artifical light of variable strength can be used for highlighting. The 'color coded' compositions of her works carry the spectator away into speculative or interpretative imaginations of the painting. The 'Encounter'-design series are sometimes mysterious - the rudimentary bodies are interrelated.
Through their body language, they express typical feelings like love, connection, fear or isolationism. Mainly warm and tender, these paintings show the gathering of people, their being-together, their splitting-up and a mysterious, disguised harmony between them.

The top-line in de Encounter-series is formed by the monumental Teatro-paintings, featuring cosmopolitan female figures ready to visit theatres of all sorts.
In other Encounter-type designs like 'Iris' or 'Tosca' the visuals lead the spectator to disguised horizons.
Her IRIS-designs are characterized by their  'rock-crystal'-type spread of chilly colors, which almost without notice disperse into abstracted human figures, in an esoteric and anthroposofic fashion. Very much in contrast are the Tosca-designs (nick-named after the Italian region) showing  cosy warm red and natural yellow and green color settings, sometimes giving the typical country side feeling of a peace breathing late summer evening.

The abstract Wings-designs are named after the wing-type ornaments which almost spread out over the full width of the mysterical abstract surroundings.
Painted in a dash-and-stripe fashion, the embossed wings glow up in the available light, thanks to the use of true gold particles in the used paints.